Potatoes harvested from bin with blight. Are they safe to eat?

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Potatoes harvested from bin with blight. Are they safe to eat?

Potatoes harvested from bin with blight. Are they safe to eat?

Basically what title reads. Here's the back story:

I had a bin with potatoes going. Noticed two of the green sprouts had signs of blight so out of precaution I cut the greens down and turned the whole bin over. It being very early, I didn't even expect to find any taters in the soil at all. But to my surprise there were quite a few. Some are super tiny, naturally. But many are golf ball size and a few even larger.

If the bin was indeed infested with blight, are these safe to eat? I don't know much about how blight affects potatoes other than it can harm or kill the plant but obviously food safety is the greater concern. And while l've grown taters many times before, l've never experienced blight. This one is new to me.

submitted by /u/CiderLane204 to r/vegetablegardening
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